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How to Be a Life Long Learner

In a previous series, we covered in detail how to succeed in college. One of the key messages of that series is that the main purpose of college is not education but rather to gain qualifications needed for a c...

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi on How to Attend Lectures

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi is considered one of the most brilliant minds from the Islamic tradition. A prolific writer, he authored over 400 books on topics ranging in diversity from grammar to fiqh to ethics to phys...

Testing Out: The Muslim Man’s Guide to College Part II

Narrated 'Aisha: "Whenever Allah's Apostle was given the choice of one of two matters, he would choose the easier of the two, as long as it was not sinful to do so." (Bukhari) Testing Out As we covered in the l...